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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
hour,’ or from noon till three in the

afternoon, in its duration, and also in its time,

about full moon, when the moon could not

possibly eclipse the sun. The time it happened,

and the fact itself, are recorded in a curious

and valuable passage of a respectable Roman

Consul, Aurelius Cassiodorius Senator, about

A. D. 514: ‘In the consulate of Tiberius Caesar

Aug. V and AElius Sejanus (u. c. 784, A. D. 31),

our Lord Jesus Christ suffered, on the 8th of

the calends of April (25th of March), when

there happened such an eclipse of the sun as

was never before nor since.

“In this year, and in this day, agree also the

Council of Cesarea, A. D. 196 or 198, the

Alexandrian Chronicle, Maximus Monachus,

Nicephorus Constantinus, Cedrenus; and in

this year, but on different days, concur